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Now You're Gone – The Album

studio album by Basshunter

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1507697 ↗
Source-derived summary

Now You're Gone – The Album is the third studio album by Swedish musician Basshunter. Released on 14 July 2008, it is his debut English language album, entering the UK Albums Chart at number one, and selling in excess of 329,717 copies in the United Kingdom making it platinum.

In New Zealand, the album peaked at number one in its fifth week, and was certified double platinum selling over 30,000 copies. The album spent a total of two weeks at number one.

Reception

Ronny Larsson from QX noted that the English-language lyrics no longer refer to the data as they did on the LOL album, but still sings on about nonsense, adding that dance music lyrics are not too poetic. Leo Gold for EDM Sauce described “In Her Eyes” as one of the best Basshunter songs, noting that it stands out on the album and praising the vocal sample "Are you ready to party?!".

Chart performance

On 20 July 2008, Now You're Gone – The Album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with sale of 36,825 copies.

Editorial summary

“Now You're Gone – The Album” enters the record as studio album by Basshunter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what You're, Gone and Album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-07-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around You're, Gone and Album.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1507697. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Now You're Gone – The Album” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.